Public Hearings
Code Enforcement public hearings are a local government process to maintain standards that a community establishes through codes and ordinances. Residents play an important part of maintaining the appearance, functioning, and property values of all areas of the City. Our common goal is to keep our community safe, resilient against threats, and beautiful. Therefore, our approach is to work with residents to voluntarily bring properties into compliance without an extensive legal process.
When a complaint is received, an Officer visits the location for an inspection. We give owners the chance to fix issues and connect them with resources to help if needed. If the issues continue, we request a fair hearing in front of a “quasi-judicial” board made up of fellow neighbors. The following citizen volunteer boards are appointed by the City Commission and provide a fair and public hearing for code violations:
A volunteer board of residents with relevant professional experiences hears cases for numerous City codes, but mostly major structural, permitting, and zoning violation codes. The MCEB can order compliance actions, including demolition on dangerous building, and they can assess fines and liens for non-compliance.
MCEB hearings have no set number of hearings and can meet frequently or infrequently as needed. All hearings are held at 6 pm, and are held at the Frenchtown Renaissance Center - 1st Floor Growth Management Community Room, located at 435 N Macomb Street.
2024 meeting agendas have been archived.
Hearing dates for 2025.
2025 Meetings
Postings
Resident volunteers with relevant professional experiences hears cases for numerous City codes, but mostly for care of premise such as overgrowth, trash/debris, inoperable vehicles and minimum housing standards. Hearings occur in front of one magistrate who reviews, orders compliance actions and can assess fines and liens for non-compliance.
CM hearings have no set number of hearings and can meet frequently or infrequently as needed. All hearings are held 1:00 pm at the Frenchtown Renaissance Center - 2nd Floor Community Room, located at 435 N Macomb Street.
2024 meeting agendas have been archived.
2025 Meetings
Postings
- Other Notices
- No hearing scheduled for January
- Postings for the February 4, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the March 4, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the April 8, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the May 6, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the June 3, 2025 Hearing
- No hearing scheduled for July
- Postings for the August 5, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the September 2, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the October 7, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the November 4, 2025 Hearing
- Postings for the December 9, 2025 Hearing
Resident volunteers review violations of the City's environmental code and may also grant variances to the Ordinance. The Environmental Variance Board hearings are held at 5 pm every 2nd Tuesday of the month at the Frenchtown Renaissance Center - First Floor Conference Room. See all the public hearing dates and filing deadlines for 2025.
2024 meeting agendas have been archived.
2025 Meetings
- Agenda for January 14, 2025
Agenda for February 11, 2025 - MEETING CANCELLEDAgenda for April 8, 2025 - MEETING CANCELLED- Agenda for May 13, 2025
Agenda for June 10, 2025 - MEETING CANCELLEDAgenda for July 8, 2025 - MEETING CANCELLED- Agenda for August 12, 2025
- Agenda for September 9, 2025
Agenda for October 14, 2025 - MEETING CANCELLEDAgenda for December 9, 2025 - MEETING CANCELLED
Postings
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